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Authors’ Affiliations

(1)

National Office for Maternal and Child Health Surveillance of China, Department of Obstetrics, West China Second University Hospital, Key Laboratory of Birth Defects and Related Diseases of Women and Children, Ministry of Education, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

(2)

School of Women’s and Infants’ Health and School of Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia